Concept maps are very good at organizing knowledge about a wide variety of subjects. However, they present some difficulties and opportunities when it comes to the retrieval of concept maps based on individual query terms. In this paper, we review the search architecture of CmapTools and some of the key issues involved in the ranking of concept maps search results. We compare several different ...

Over recent decades, the process of teaching/learning has become ever more complex. The increasing school population, and the advent of new IT applications and of networking, together with the requirement for continuous training, have comprehensively overturned the simplistic approach to the process that had previously been pursued. As a result, the evaluation of the process has also been overh...

Concept maps are a graphical representation of a person’s (or group of persons’) understanding of a domain. As such, it can be considered a knowledge representation scheme. However, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community frowns on the use of the term “knowledge representation” to refer to concept maps, because they cannot be readily translated to a formal representation for inference or oth...

We are interested in evaluating interactive retrieval systems from the user’s perspective. In this position paper, we introduce a user study evaluating the cognitive change in users’ knowledge by using concept maps.

Concept is a new and powerful language element being introduced in the next C++ standard. With the help of concepts we can define the properties a template requires from its type arguments. If a type does not fulfill the requirements syntactically, but semantically, the connection must be declared with the use of a concept map. Often the description of the semantic matching results in long code...

As one of the most important tasks in object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is the abstraction of the problem domain into specific concepts or objects, information technology (IT) students need appropriate skills of abstraction in order to identify the essential concepts and relationships within a problem domain. However students in higher education generally find difficulty performing abs...

Concept maps that integrate and relate concepts in a nonlinear fashion are widely accepted as an educational tool that can underpin meaningful learning in medical education. However, student take-up may be affected by a number of cognitive and non-cognitive influences. In the present study, student attitudes to pre-prepared concept maps introduced in Stage 2 conjoint MPharm and BSc Pharmacology...

By using content analysis techniques to compare social construction of knowledge in online dialogues to concept maps generated to synthesize this knowledge construction, this study showed that concept maps are an effective tool to synthesize knowledge construction in online conferences. This finding was also supported by self-reported data in a moderator survey. Concept maps were also considere...

The purpose of this article is to describe a study that implemented concept maps as a methodology to teach and evaluate critical thinking. Students in six senior clinical groups were taught to use concept maps. Students created three concept maps over the course of the semester. Data analysis demonstrated a group mean score of 40.38 on the first concept map and 135.55 on the final concept map, ...